A first for everything.

I thought that it would be appropriate to start off my first post with a first attempt at a do-it-yourself project that my husband and I completed over the weekend.  We had been wanting to put up a chalkboard between our breakfast room and kitchen.  After going back and forth about where to buy a chalkboard big enough to fill up the long, narrow wall, we decided it would be most cost-effective to build it ourselves.  How hard could it be, right?

My husband recently bought a table saw and router so I designed a basic framed board that would span six feet high by three feet wide.  Putting the frame together took the most time since we had no idea how to put a biscuit joint together.

And though the project took us most of the labor day weekend and about ten trips to the home improvement stores, the final result was just want I had envisioned.  Now our breakfast nook reminds me of our trip to Paris a few years back.